"Big Boys" Plays Washington

The West End Cinema will host a screening of “Big Boys Gone Bananas,” which documents the efforts of the Dole fruit company to block release of a film on the company’s use of a pesticide banned in the United States on banana plantations in Nicaragua. This special screening includes a brief introduction to the film by Alex Gibney, and an interview with the director of the film Fredrik Gertten.

Following the film, 100Reporters will host a brief panel discussion at the West End featuring Ken Silverstein, a member of 100Reporters and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine, and Theodore Frank, a partner at Arnold & Porter who has litigated First Amendment cases. Diana Jean Schemo, executive editor of 100Reporters, will moderate.